Life insurance and financial services group across South Africa and region
Momentum Group is a large, public South African financial services operator with 10,000+ employees across life insurance, retail banking, and specialist brands. The tech stack reveals a Java/Spring Backend on AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS, CloudWatch) with containerization and IaC practices in place—indicating a maturing ops foundation. However, hiring is heavily weighted toward sales (27 roles) and finance (19 roles) against just 2 engineering positions, while projects cluster around claims integration, data analysis, and product strategy—suggesting internal tech infrastructure is largely in place and hiring is now client-facing and commercial.
Momentum Group Limited, formerly Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, is a publicly traded South African financial services conglomerate operating life insurance, integrated financial services, and specialist property brands. The group operates a federated model across client-facing brands including Momentum, Metropolitan, Guardrisk, and Eris Properties, serving retail and institutional clients across South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. The company maintains backend systems on AWS using Java/Spring Boot and Kubernetes, with active infrastructure projects around containerization and claims processing workflows. Current strategic focus areas include client retention, reducing fraud in broker channels, product competitiveness, and streamlining end-to-end claims workflows across underwriting and finance functions.
Java, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, RDS, CloudWatch, ECR), Terraform, GitLab, Argo CD, SQL, Python, SAS, and R. Infrastructure is containerized and managed via infrastructure-as-code.
Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa. The company operates as a public financial services group with 10,001+ employees.
Active projects include microservices migration to AWS EKS, claims integration with underwriting and finance systems, designing group-level claims frameworks, analyzing claims data for cost drivers, market strategy for product promotions, and client retention campaigns.
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